This field chapel, which opened in 2007, is a wonderful embodiment of both Klaus's asceticism, and Zumthor's own reserve. Its initial structure was constructed from 112 local pine trees, cut and arranged into a kind of wigwam by Scheidtweiler's friends and family. The same community group also oversaw the mixing and application of the chapel's concrete, which was formed using local sand and gravel, and built up in 50cm-thick slabs on the outside of the pine logs to a height of 12 metres over the course of 24 days.
Once the concrete was in place, the chapel's wooden innards were set alight, the pine burning away slowly over the course of three weeks. The floor was lined with molten lead, and glass beads were fixed into the ends of the walls' steel tubes, which had held the setting concrete in place, allowing daylight into the chapel's dark centre.
There are a few other design details, including a sculpture of the saint, yet the main visual element within the chapel is its unglazed tear-drop oculus, which is said to reference a vision Brother Klaus experienced, of floating in his mother's womb and seeing an enormous starburst.
This field chapel, which opened in 2007, is a wonderful embodiment of both Klaus's asceticism, and Zumthor's own reserve. Its initial structure was constructed from 112 local pine trees, cut and arranged into a kind of wigwam by Scheidtweiler's friends and family. The same community group also oversaw the mixing and application of the chapel's concrete, which was formed using local sand and gravel, and built up in 50cm-thick slabs on the outside of the pine logs to a height of 12 metres over the course of 24 days.Once the concrete was in place, the chapel's wooden innards were set alight, the pine burning away slowly over the course of three weeks. The floor was lined with molten lead, and glass beads were fixed into the ends of the walls' steel tubes, which had held the setting concrete in place, allowing daylight into the chapel's dark centre.There are a few other design details, including a sculpture of the saint, yet the main visual element within the chapel is its unglazed tear-drop oculus, which is said to reference a vision Brother Klaus experienced, of floating in his mother's womb and seeing an enormous starburst.
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